Construction site horror: Workers forced to flee for their lives as 100ft wall collapses

In the shocking clip, the 100-foot (30 metre) high retaining wall suddenly comes rumbling down, triggering a landslide of hundreds of tonnes of earth.
The construction site incident happened in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city.
Incredibly, nobody was killed or injured in the construction site landslide, which was captured on video by the workers.
In the clip, workers can be heard shouting: "Leave the area. Run away, faster, faster get out of there!"
The footage quickly went viral after being uploaded to social media.
Workers at the construction site in the Basaksehir district... read more

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